Hacker News: nilsherzig

New comment by nilsherzig in "Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM"

nilsherzig — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:57:31 +0000

Still flags as 100% LLM written https://www.pangram.com/history/cc9b6131-c772-4b3b-9a5d-8e81...

New comment by nilsherzig in "The revolt of the reader"

nilsherzig — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:28:11 +0000

update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582725 shared another page which already does the parsing and pangram requests. I wrote a little wrapper and userscript based extension around it (https://github.com/nilsherzig/hnslop), hope that helps!

New comment by nilsherzig in "The revolt of the reader"

nilsherzig — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:26:38 +0000

created a little wrapper and userscript based browser extension https://hnslop.nilsherzig.com/

New comment by nilsherzig in "The revolt of the reader"

nilsherzig — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:23:43 +0000

I have (an API, not an extension), but pangram is way to expensive for me to run, current (v4) pricing is $0.05 per 100 words. Should be absolutely doable if we split the cost between users tho.

I tried searching for good opensource / reasonably priced alternatives, pangram themselves even have some of their older architecture and training data on github/hugging face, but i never got that working reliably enough.

New comment by nilsherzig in "The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager"

nilsherzig — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:21:37 +0000

checks out:

> In 2006, SoftwareOnline was sued by The Washington State Attorney General's Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer#:~:text=16%5D-,In...

New comment by nilsherzig in "Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?"

nilsherzig — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:18:43 +0000

Removing stuff without mentioning the removal.

Asking an LLM to remove an Idea from a Document often times results in an edit which explicitly states that this Idea is not relevant, instead of just removing all references to that Idea.

That might be useful for some form of "evolving" Documentation (so future readers know that this part of the search space was covered and deemed irrelevant) but is just overly verbose and confusing to read in most situations.

New comment by nilsherzig in "Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?"

nilsherzig — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:14:50 +0000

You can get better results from less aligned models like Kimi K3. Still not actually funny, but at least it’s able to produce some unhinged stuff and I guess shock and twists are kinda related to humor?

Still missing the human connection of cause, so im not sure if this is a technical / skill issue in the first place.

New comment by nilsherzig in "Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?"

nilsherzig — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:09:41 +0000

That's a Claude thing btw. Try using a harness which does not inject half a novel of instructions in combination with a different model. I would recommend Pi + GPT 5.6 Luna for a very capable and cheap test.

After using Claude (paid by work) for a couple of months, I was amazed how well instruction following works in other setups.

New comment by nilsherzig in "Letter from Dolly Parton to Eminem"

nilsherzig — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:01:35 +0000

oh looks like they killed xcancel :/

https://xcancel.com/Eminem/status/2092367272891310482

New comment by nilsherzig in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

nilsherzig — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:20:36 +0000

I don't see a lot of value in that, but one could supply a lot of semi structured extra information which could aid the readers LLM to answer questions the reader might have with more accuracy / factual grounding.

New comment by nilsherzig in "I built a mmWave material classification radar"

nilsherzig — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:09:51 +0000

love the background music in combination with the flying fishes wallpaper in the first video haha

very cool project

New comment by nilsherzig in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

nilsherzig — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:52:02 +0000

If you're unsure about spending the time to learn Zig, I really recommend watching the following interview with the creator of Zig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqddnwKF8HQ convinced me more than any design doc or blogpost could

New comment by nilsherzig in "Surprising economics of load-balanced systems"

nilsherzig — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:56:47 +0000

Why would anyone think that it would get linearly worse? What's the (wrong) assumption there?

New comment by nilsherzig in "A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech"

nilsherzig — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:12:08 +0000

I like MAGIC CARPET "Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Technologies"

New comment by nilsherzig in "A key remapping daemon for Linux"

nilsherzig — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:18:45 +0000

Great software. Especially the "lettermod" feature. It allows you to configure a key to switch to a layer / secondary actions if held for some time, but only if no other key was pressed within some time before. So secondary key actions don't happen while the user is actively typing a text. This makes it very easy to add homerow mods (adding Ctrl, Alt, etc to the homerow keys) without the struggle of accidently triggering them.

New comment by nilsherzig in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

nilsherzig — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:23:44 +0000

yes but https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask... reads like they connected to MQTT and received data from IOT devices on there, not using BLE

New comment by nilsherzig in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

nilsherzig — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:48:21 +0000

Can someone explain the other iot devices using the same broker? I tried cross referencing the feature list, information about the user base, kickstarter origin and flutter app with some search results and I’m pretty sure that I found the company and product in question. But they don’t (publicly) produce iot devices? Sooo I’m wondering if different companies are streaming their data into a shared sink and why they would do that?

New comment by nilsherzig in "Map showing most notable people per region"

nilsherzig — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:53:30 +0000

Not mine. Was already posted on here, but the last time it got traction was a couple of years back.

Map showing most notable people per region

nilsherzig — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:53:30 +0000

Article URL: https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962774

Points: 2

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New comment by nilsherzig in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

nilsherzig — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:40:16 +0000

I think the randomness is addicting. While writing a prompt often doesn't result in the perfect outcome, it very well could. Pressing the "prompt lever" (again and again), waiting for the result to show up looks a lot like gambling.

See "Variable Ratio Schedule" https://www.simplypsychology.org/schedules-of-reinforcement....